Wild Flowers

Wild Flowers is a Czech drama film released in 2000. It was directed by F. A. Brabec and based on seven poems from Kytice, a collection of ballads by Karel Jaromír Erben. While relatively successful commercially, the film was deplored by critics for its crude literalism of depiction. Structure The 7 stories are as follows: Kytice (Wild Flowers) Vodník (The Waterman, or The Water Goblin) Svatební košile (Wedding Shirts, or The Specter's Bride) Polednice (The Noon Witch) Zlatý kolovrat (The Golden Spinning Wheel) Dceřina kletba (The Daughter's Curse) Štědrý den (Christmas Eve) Plot A Film Story playing from spring to winter and covering 80 years of human life. Seven dramatic human life stories that may play anywhere and in any century. They tell the everlasting story of passion, love desire, obsession and selfishness. The whole story, the Ballads were written by Czech poet Karel Jaromír Erben a century ago and yet they are still here and alive. Therefore, the authors of the movie decided to choose seven of the ballads and make them a film poetry of a very new style. It is a composition of photography, music and fascinating landscape and architecture.